loutre
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Old French lutre, from Latin lutra. In Old French, there were variants leurre (which is the normal phonetic result) and loirre (from a Vulgar Latin form *lutria, influenced by Ancient Greek ἔνυδρις (énudris); cf. Occitan luria, Catalan llúdria, Spanish lutria, nutria). The standard modern form loutre probably maintained the -t- due to influence from Frankish and Germanic (compare Dutch and English otter, German Otter).
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /lutʁ/
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Noun
[edit]loutre f (plural loutres)
- otter
- 1857, Gustave Flaubert, chapter 1, in Madame Bovary […][1], Paris: Michel Lévy Frères, first part:
- C’était une de ces coiffures d’ordre composite, où l’on retrouve les éléments du bonnet à poil, du chapska, du chapeau rond, de la casquette de loutre et du bonnet de coton, une de ces pauvres choses, enfin, dont la laideur muette a des profondeurs d’expression comme le visage d’un imbécile.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
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[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “loutre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012
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